<oembed><type>rich</type><version>1.0</version><author_name>npub1k2eekmevs6gg60df75qpjw4a2atmy89vx28c8zqq5jxy64tuzrws39qd6m</author_name><author_url>https://nostr.ae/npub1k2eekmevs6gg60df75qpjw4a2atmy89vx28c8zqq5jxy64tuzrws39qd6m</author_url><provider_name>njump</provider_name><provider_url>https://nostr.ae</provider_url><html>📅 Original date posted:2015-02-12&#xA;📝 Original message:-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE-----&#xA;Hash: SHA256&#xA;&#xA;On 02/12/2015 03:20 PM, Natanael wrote:&#xA;&gt; Multisignature notaries need to convince people to select them.&#xA;&gt; They want to know that even with collateral, their funds won&#39;t be&#xA;&gt; temporarily locked up and unspendable for days at a time.&#xA;&gt; &#xA;&gt; What services would miners provide here, do you think?&#xA;&gt; &#xA;&gt;&gt; Well, sure. It&#39;s the same model governments use and is why being&#xA;&gt;&gt; a money&#xA;&gt; transmitter in the USA is so difficult: you need to put up large&#xA;&gt; sums of money as collateral and have your fingerprints taken 48&#xA;&gt; times. Then you can start advertising to get customers!&#xA;&gt; &#xA;&gt; Obviously you need to have collateral to provide collateral. Can&#39;t&#xA;&gt; make cryptographic verifiable guarantees if you don&#39;t have the&#xA;&gt; resources to back them.&#xA;&#xA;tl;dr: Bitcoin users aren&#39;t getting very excited about somebody&#39;s pet&#xA;hub-and-spoke project, so they decide to distribute a patch that will&#xA;change Bitcoin&#39;s behavior such that people are forced to adopt them.&#xA;&#xA;Scorched earth, indeed.&#xA;&#xA;- -- &#xA;Support online privacy by using email encryption whenever possible.&#xA;Learn how here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bakOKJFtB-k&#xA;-----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE-----&#xA;&#xA;iQIcBAEBCAAGBQJU3McnAAoJECpf2nDq2eYjxI8P/iClVQKNhGPr0K4D8KktUDUS&#xA;CB8Gu6Rg4VqgjzwhSd1AD1CAhSkxRRgNfHOkxeu2n1wA/fs9V/x66W9G33OyHvf4&#xA;1M+BwkiNszxvfxvZVkXyPa/eqa8/alIs1jEhb19dBRn6sJ6EQyca93PG00wDhhRU&#xA;JbHeYj2pYYMuu+xRpJWhRdUOpJOsLu5E9XMocS12wun7+zQCs4QfoLVcGhMv3+Ug&#xA;iS3/H1NNQJegIFMQzgi5hr7CxClZ+MrsLDO7MBEZknjr0toEJXe7c5Logwc3oF8h&#xA;klhFeSnhexCHNeDSGKDhG89hrgWPSDDuuyMRa3e3L4xsT2zAFcsmw0ScCmyNSto4&#xA;gUCy1gQsShDJSvsYvqjJkOcL5UfP2WLQiVJecpblf1R/tgjC0SsBoPeRMT/DeSjV&#xA;xpcjUrAUzkIBuEcunFarkt7wBvL/4pvGnbYcx3uW2YX50oO7LjCcgwJLMW4ecsvn&#xA;zAoc+aXqeORo2SAI3tTJKqpnn5K2k7DVTiFt1vzHVR7OxnKa/+sXk+bCkQi9/dAL&#xA;bWjiBUV8hXBVIt0UBgj7Q5wgQSoAXI0D816GIA2Qb9XQfmpRb8QTmf9kQ1DrcV68&#xA;Qt1KOHPY1yCynqLMxN3ONWu4JMF+YYwrxx47Gg7wSJr5q70mHNlLljfnfb5PNLtS&#xA;J6t2/QfPTMmyN3V6xkbU&#xA;=hna5&#xA;-----END PGP SIGNATURE-----&#xA;-------------- next part --------------&#xA;A non-text attachment was scrubbed...&#xA;Name: 0xEAD9E623.asc&#xA;Type: application/pgp-keys&#xA;Size: 14416 bytes&#xA;Desc: not available&#xA;URL: &lt;http://lists.linuxfoundation.org/pipermail/bitcoin-dev/attachments/20150212/ce7feef2/attachment.bin&gt;</html></oembed>